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- emblym, on 10/12/2007, -6/+41You are why there should be an age limit on Digg.
And you even Dugg the story. Who's the ball licker? - bradspry, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Don't miss this spiral version, at Apple's Shinsaibashi store:
http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/shinsaibashi/photo2/index.html - umrgregg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Because of perverts.
Actually, it's probably so you could differentiate the steps better. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18I'm going to create an Orange store with a plastic staircase... that'll show him.
- StatusQuoRules, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16I wonder if obese people can walk on them, If not it may inspire them to lose weight so they can see the top floor!
- rabiddogma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11This isn't true. While it's very important that something look good, it's also necessary that things just work. And that's pretty much the case with all of Apples products. Much more so than almost any other PC manufacturer. Apple products are premium products, you know that when you get them they will look good and work really well.
It's also big mistake to downplay the importants of good functional aesthetic design. - cjwl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Prediction: Hollywood builds an Apple Store out of sugar-glass and has a big ol' gunfight/kungfu battle in it. Now THAT would be cool.
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11""A true geek cares not what something looks like, so long as it works.""
No, that'd be a geek that has no sense of style/aetsthetics/visual acuity.
A true geek is a sucker for details. - LandStander, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Going down the stairs is usually a slow endeavor, as you gaze downward at the glass and metal, and pause once again on the landing to look around. By the time you've reached the ground floor, you feel like you've actually been entertained."
Ya the stairs are very cool looking but move your ass! - bluehouse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I like how the patent has Steve's name on it first. Does anyone think he did anything else other than tell his Apple engineers to build him a glass staircase?
- MrCobaltBlue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Sources close to apple say Steve called it the iStair, and it climbs like butter.
- Ninjamonkey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Did you guys read the article? The impressive part is the engineering that went into creating the staircase to make sure that "it works."
- Squeegee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6 They must have some low paid employee to always keep the glass clean during the days that it rains. Wonder what the slip factor is or clowns hanging out below the stairs to try and get a peek up some
female skirts. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Your climb consists of gazing left-and-right at the elevated view of the store"
apparently it's the first time these people have experienced stairs - PacoBell, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Huh, that glass doesn't seem to occlude light too well. I'd imagine you'd be able to see right up the skirt of any lady walking across the bridge section...
- delinka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If that's right (and not a typo in the article), how could it possibly hold my weight when I shift my weight to one foot while walking? I'm 6'2" 190lbs. My feet are 12" long. I'd be putting nearly 200lbs in less than 1sq ft.
- jnorris441, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12This guy makes it sound like a religious experience.
Who gives a *****? It's stairs. - dextroz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6why is it frosted?!?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It says it is designed to carry about "100lbs per square foot". Can anyone extrapolate from that how big of a person it could take? And what if two people were stepping on the same step at the same time - one going up and one going down?
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Apple forgot to leave off the 'Gl' from Glass Staircase... ;)
Apple stores remind me of the "Four Eyes" commercial, with the guy trying to sell the people over pricey and
bloated eye glasses... - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6The spiral glass stairway is MUCH cooler.
- Akram, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4looks like the Regent Street, London, UK store....yes the stair case is nice and expensive, but they are stairs.......
- JohnyD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Most shoppers avoid the 2nd floor? Lemme guess... you arrived at that fact by interviewing American shoppers? How about asking the rest of the non-fat world?
- NOFXY, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5i think its great that they can take something as simple as a staircase and make it a great work of beauty and engineering art while still producing something that's functional. Same philosophy they apply to their products. It would be great if other manufacturers would get it right like apple does. Sadly everyone else is still stuck on trying to get their products to work right the first time *cough* windows and PS3 *cough*
- dawgma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Why did these two guys get dugg down? What is wrong with what they're saying?
No one has a foot that covers more than a square foot of area. So if the article has thier numbers right, anyone over 100 lbs standing on one foot (which happens everytime you move up/down a step) would be putting more pressure on the stairs than they are rated for.
Since we see people walking on the stairs without falling through, the numbers must be wrong or the article is lacking some detail. Like perhaps each step uses 4 panes of glass each rated at 100lbs per foot^2. Or if you put multiple panes on top of one another, their stability increases beyond a linear fashion...
meh.. - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"A true geek cares not what something looks like, so long as it works."
Apparently, a true geek also uses pretentious Ren-Faire grammar to try and sound interesting. - jk_baller23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3didn't know they had it patented. Looks really nice though. Frosted too. But, I can't imagine cleaning all those glass panels :p
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm sure he had a big say in the design, and, obviously, funded the whole thing.
- noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5 I hesitated before posting this comment, because I don't feel it reflects my entire opinion. I appreciate a lot of things about Apple hardware, such as the size of the iPod, and the incredible cooling system in the "Quad core" PowerMac G5, but I think that all too many "Mac users" are in it for the aesthetic, and the image that the Apple corporation has associated into their products and marketing.
Granted, there are still vast numbers of Mac users who adore their Macs and Apple products for reasons other than simple aesthetic presentation (such as the original Mac users, the people who had devotion and respect for the company BEFORE the iPod and OS X, even NeXT), but the change in paradigm Apple has exhibited within the last six to eight has been allocated more importance than I believe is necessary.
I am content with my GNU/Linux desktop, even without all of the transparency, brushed metal, and glass staircases that much of the current generation of Mac users loves so much. - Cirrocco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5imagine the carniage if the thing broke! just imagine
- bluefin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5These staircases are no where as good as the glass staircases by Eva Jiricna architects. They are really jewel like. Apple's look like a cheap imitation
- yikiad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What I find interesting is that the design is patented be Apple. They sure keep a tight grip on there image, aye?
- csprech, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6can we act like we have seen stairs before... just because apple makes it does not mean it always has to be a headliner. I will admit that its good looking, but come on people, its freakin stairs!
- lmlloyd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Is this some really elaborate joke? I mean, as though enough people don't already comment about the somewhat crazy and fanatical nature of macheads on the Internet, now there is a front page story about Apple having stairs in their offices? Not only that, but an article pointing out that Steve Jobs himself was involved in the creation of a set of stairs?
Wow, that is high-tech! Stairs! How ever did people get from one floor to the next before Apple innovated this amazing discovery? They really do push the edge of technology, don't they? Stairs! Why didn't I think of that? Man, just imagine the money you could make if you were the one who had come up with the brilliant idea of patenting stairs! And glass ones no less! No one had ever thought of using glass as an architectural element before. What a novel concept (for the '50s). - lightningrod220, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8*craaacckkk!* wump! AGGGHHH!! Help! I've been impaled by glass! Gaaahhhh!!! I should've gone on that diet!
- fallscrape, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3But they're so wobbly. I'm only 11stone and it bounced all the way up... could have been the fixings but the glass seemed to bend!
- etx313, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why is this on the front page? The GM building in Detroit had this like 10 years ago, and it was way cooler.
- aekdbbop, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5was in san francisco just tuesday, had to go to the apple store.. the stairs were cool, but there was a catwalk made of glass that kinda made me nervous. Ha, but there was a photoshop tutorial going on upstairs.. freakin awesome company.
- peace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Not sure about the fiberglass thing but I remember years ago there was a technology exhibition that the lobby floor was made of mirrors. It was really cool ... for man. Imagine lots of women who wore skirts standing by the door and wondering whether or not it's a good a idea to walk through.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Seriously; any comment even remotely negative towards Apple or Jobs gets quickly modded down to oblivion.
- fungible, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7"A true geek cares not what something looks like, so long as it works."
Yeah, it's a shame Windows doesn't work. Oh, snap! - wingerspoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What exactly does the patent they have cover? The exact design of their staircases at different stores, or the concept of using glass for a staircase?
- deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I agree with you jnorris.
I openly support Apple's design and product philsophy because I think they're ahead of the pack, but this is just... stupid. Just because someone (Steve Jobs) can make alot of money with smart ideas doesn't make them an achitect. Big egos suck. I have much more respect for Woz than Jobs. Maybe I'm mixing my critizcisms of Jobs with my hostility that such an idiotic topic made it to the front page...
Here's something far more interesting: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1172801
(It'a a trap!) - shayne_sweeney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did you mean plexiglass? I can't imagine translucent fiberglass carrying that much weight and transparent fiberglass always seems more opaque and less consistent in texture.
- WinGeek, on 10/15/2008, -3/+5It is funny how much attention stairs get.... they are stairs people! ohh shiny...
- in4mation, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Using glass as part of architectural design is nothing new or unique. For example, the CN tower in Toronto built a glass floor giving visitors a 342m (1,122 feet) straight down to the ground view. And let me tell you walking on that is much more impressive than walking down a flight of glass stairs.
- TheSolomon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The glass staircases are cool and all (and I dugg the story), but I must not have paid much attention when I encountered them. This person was totally blown away, including taking up-close photos. I guess I must be spoiled, since I encounter cool architecture (and the like) all the time. It's almost like this person has never been in a truly modern/cool building before. My reaction, in person, was limited to "glass staircase; that's pretty cool." And that's about it. :-)
- Gullop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Seriously though....a staircase.
- CasadeMike, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I work in the architectural industry and I heard the glass alone for those staircases cost $160,000. I can only imagine the final costs after design team, hardware and labor to install.
- Vector713, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Sources close to apple say Steve called it the iStair, and it climbs like butter." LMFAO
that's awesome. -
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